适者生存
shì​zhě​shēng​cún

survival of the fittest

  • created sense approved 适者生存/適者生存 · shì​zhě​shēng​cún · survival of the fittest — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    适者生存 / 適者生存

    shì​zhě​shēng​cún

    survival of the fittest

    the principle that only those organisms best adapted to their environment will survive and reproduce

    适 (literal) → 适/適 · shì · to fit 者 (bound) → 者 · zhě · -er 生存 (literal) → 生存 · shēng​cún · to survive

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense